State of Minnesota secondary Archives: on Free Trade

Heather Johnson:
Free markets are the fairest form of voluntary exchange

Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Support & expand free trade"?

A: Libertarians support free markets.
It is the most indiscriminately fair form of business with voluntary exchanges of goods and services for goods and services, open competition, consumer driven supply and demand
that better regulate cost of living and wages than any type of government controlled system or any system where businesses are allowed to use government for personal gain.
Any company that tries to manipulate the market can be regulated through worker and consumer protests. Any coercion, force, or fraud upon employees, consumers, or even businesses can seek justice through the judicial system.

Kurt Bills:
Help countries with trade instead of aid

Q: You support cutting our foreign aid from $50 billion a year to $5 billion. Are there risks that come with this kind of reduction?

BILLS: I see the best way of helping these countries is by trading with them. If we trade with each other, that's also
a great national security, to promote our national security we trade with other countries, and then we're integrated with them and then we're less likely to be aggressive toward them and they're less likely to be aggressive towards us.

Source: MinnPost.com Q-and-A on 2012 MN Senate debate
Jun 29, 2012

The above quotations are from State of Minnesota Politicians: secondary Archives.